George E. Haggerty is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (1998) and Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century (1999). He has also edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (1995) and Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000). His latest book is Queer Gothic (2006).Molly McGarry is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is co-author (with Fred Wasserman) of Becoming Visible and author of Ghosts of Futures Past (2007).

• List of Illustrations ixList of Contributors xiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Molly McGarry and George E. HaggertyPART I QUEER POLITICS IN THE TIME OF WAR AND SHOPPING OR WHY SEX? WHY NOW? 151 Sex, Secularism, and the “War on Terrorism”: The Role of Sexuality in Multi- Issue Organizing 17Janet R. Jakobsen2 Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 38David L. Eng3 “No Atheists in the Fox Hole”: Toward a Radical Queer Politics in a Post- 9/11 World 60Sharon P. Holland4 Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping 77Martin F. Manalansan IV5 Who Needs Civil Liberties? 87Richard MeyerPART II HISTORIES, GENEALOGIES, AND FUTURITIES 1076 The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality 109Roderick A. Ferguson7 The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography 124Valerie Traub8 Deviant Teaching 146David M. Halperin9 After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp 168Ann Pellegrini10 Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past 194Carla FrecceroPART III DESIRE FOR GENDER 21511 The Desire for Gender 217Robyn Wiegman12 Methodologies of Trans Resistance 237Dean Spade13 The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to Sex/Gender 262Vernon A. Rosario14 Gesture and Utterance: Fragments from a Butch–Femme Archive 282Juana María RodríguezPART IV QUEER BELONGINGS 29315 Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory 295Elizabeth Freeman16 Forgetting Family: Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations 315Judith Halberstam17 Between Friends 325Jennifer Doyle18 Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram 341Gayatri Gopinath19 The Light That Never Goes Out: Butch Intimacies and Sub- Urban Sociabilities in “Lesser Los Angeles” 355Karen TongsonPART V PERFORMING THEORY OR THEORY IN MEDIAS RES 37720 “Serious Innovation”: An Interview with Judith Butler 379Jordana Rosenberg21 Materiality, Pedagogy, and the Limits of Queer Visibility 389Amy Villarejo22 Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock Musical 404James Tobias23 Promising Complicities: On the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project 430Miranda Joseph and David Rubin24 Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism 452José Esteban MuñozIndex 465

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